Buildroot 2009.11 released

Hi,

Buildroot 2009.11 is released - Go download it at:

http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2009.11.tar.gz

or

http://buildroot.net/downloads/buildroot-2009.11.tar.bz2

After 3 months of development a new stable Buildroot release is out. Significant changes are:

- Simplified / cleaned up output directories, thanks to Thomas Petazzoni
- Sane clean/distclean make targets
- Defconfigs are now located in configs/ for easy browsing like U-Boot / the Linux kernel
- Support for the ARM cortex A8 architecture and GCC 4.4.2 support
- New packages: divine, gvfs, libarchive, libmicrohttpd, sdl_sound, swfdec and sysstat
- A bunch of more packages are converted into Makefile.autotools.in format, bringing cleanups and fixes various build issues.

And the usual package version updates and bug fixes. See the CHANGES file for details:

http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/plain/CHANGES?id=2009.11

The next release is going to be 2010.02. Expect the first release candidate in late January and the final release at the end of February. The regression test suite, mentioned in the 2009.08 release notes didn't materialize yet, but the new rand/allyes/allnopackageconfig make targets will make it easier to implement, and hopefully we will have it running by 2010.02.

Other stuff in the pipeline includes:

- Better external toolchain support and closer cooporation with crosstool-ng (http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/projects/crosstool)
- Generalized package infrastructure (host/non-autotools):
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2009-November/030600.html

Thanks to everyone contributing and testing the release candidates!

Bye, Peter Korsgaard

Hi,

Le Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:42:13 +0100,
Peter Korsgaard <[email protected]> a ?crit :

Thanks again for all your work, and the work of all contributors.

Thomas

Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers and embedded Linux development,
consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com

It great that someone puts in the effort needed to improve the tool! Thanks and congratulations!

Where do you keep the wish list? I would love to see Boost as a proper package in BR, but cross compiling Boost for all targets is likely to require some voodoo. You may use our 1.35 package as a starting point - it is likely to need improvements to compile later versions.

Joachim Pihl
Senior R&D Engineer
Nevion

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Hi,

Joachim> It great that someone puts in the effort needed to improve the tool! Joachim> Thanks and congratulations!

You're welcome.

Joachim> Where do you keep the wish list?

In my head ;) No seriously, stuff gets discussed here on the list. Thomas has been posting updates on his work several times, and crosstool-ng mainly comes from the dev day we had at ELC-E.

Joachim> I would love to see Boost as a proper package in BR, but cross Joachim> compiling Boost for all targets is likely to require some Joachim> voodoo. You may use our 1.35 package as a starting point - it Joachim> is likely to need improvements to compile later versions.

Could you attach it to a report in bugzilla? Then I'll have a look at it.

Bye, Peter Korsgaard